Did you/do you work while in college?

[Violinist]

I did work for a less than a year or so. All my tuition is paid, as well as my apartment and every other expense, plus I get $200/week from my parents for food, of which I use maybe $75... sometimes more if I get lazy and don't cook.

I worked for a few months and basically spent the money on alcohol and other bullshit. I don't think I saved a dime of the $250+/week I made from that job.

It's just not worth it to work during college... it's a waste of time. Although that job was fun because I basically did what I wanted and still made money.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by Violinist

I did work for a less than a year or so. All my tuition is paid, as well as my apartment and every other expense, plus I get $200/week from my parents for food, of which I use maybe $75... sometimes more if I get lazy and don't cook.

I worked for a few months and basically spent the money on alcohol and other bullshit. I don't think I saved a dime of the $250+/week I made from that job.

It's just not worth it to work during college... it's a waste of time. Although that job was fun because I basically did what I wanted and still made money.

$200 a week for FOOD!? That's insane.

 

[Full Canvas]

I had no choice. I worked forty hours each week to pay for food, shleter, and an expensive clothes habit! On top of that, I had my full classload each semester. It's all a blur.

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[Stazy]

I'm one of the lucky few that doesn't need to work while going to college, so I don't.

 

[Violinist]

Originally Posted by Connemara

$200 a week for FOOD!? That's insane.

Well, basically food and any other small expenses... since everything else is taken care of that's what I called it... so food/pocketmoney

 

[ghulkhan]

yea i work i make about 200 a week surfing the internet, watching movies, doing my hw or studying ..

 

[Alter]

Originally Posted by ghulkhan

yea i work i make about 200 a week surfing the internet, watching movies, doing my hw or studying ..

Huh, you get paid to surf the net and watch movies? That's awesome!

 

[Tck13]

Originally Posted by Full Canvas

I had no choice. I worked forty hours each week to pay for food, shleter, and an expensive clothes habit! On top of that, I had my full classload each semester. It's all a blur.

Ouch! There's no way I could keep up with that. There were a couple of people that I know that did that and I'm not sure how they survived.

 

[LA Guy]

The sum of my scholarships totalled more than my tuition plus living expenses plus spending cash, so no, I didn't work. I did do intermittent things like set up and instruct enrichment programs & programs for underprivileged kids. And in the summers I did research or internships abroad.

 

[hopkins_student]

For the first four weeks of undergrad school I worked twenty hours a week at a flight school. The end of those four weeks was 9/11/01 after which flight schools weren't able to operate for a month or two, at which point my services were no longer needed. At that time my parents decided that they preferred that I focus entirely on school and not work, so I've been fortunate to have their support since then, with my only loans taken for medical school tuition. Had the attacks not happened I'm sure I would have continued to work there until I transferred, I didn't do it for the money but as something I enjoyed doing to kill some time.

So to answer the question, I did not really work during undergrad school.

 

[Mr. Checks]

Originally Posted by migo

I work for my university's law school fixing law students' computer woe's (and relatively speaking, for a student, I've got a sweeet salary

). Downside: I'm engineering...

I've also lost a lot of respect for law students...they come to me with some of the most ridiculous problems ever.


What's your view on the delegation doctrine?

I have difficulty turning my computer on in the morning.
I have no idea what "PDF" is but I know it has some impact on whether I can open an email from my brother. I think.
I learned on Tuesday that I have something called "Groupwise" on my computer.
If I press the thingy I normally press and something different pops up, I have to call people like you.

But every day I wrestle with the great questions of our time - free speech, federalism, the separation of powers - and the minor related questions. There are no answers that I can get from some formula. I retain 7 removes from the main premise in my head while my opponent does the same, jockeying for the weaknesses in his argument as he picks at mine. The stakes are usually minor, like maybe $1 Billion or someone's liberty or the very structure of our society. Want to feel your asshole pucker? Have your opponent ask the jury for $186 million, and you knows it's a legitimate figure.

So, yeah, this law stuff is really easy.

 

[Alexander Kabbaz]

Six nights a week pumping gas midnight to 8. It sucked. Especially when 15 motorcycles would pull in together for 2 gallons each.

 

[MrRogers]

I was lucky enough to have my every financial need met during undergrad. Still, I always had a taste for the finer things so I worked 25-30 hrs a week personal training at a local gym. The money I made was both saved and spent. I never felt comfortable lounging around spending my parents money even though I think they pretty much expected me to. To me it just wasnt right to be wearing 500$ shoes that I didn't earn.

Even today, as I work on finishing my PhD my parents help me out with tuition/rent. I work as a child therapist during the day, 25 hrs a week and an additional 24 hrs a week working overnights in a state mental hospital doing initial assessments. Fact is that when I do graduate I wont have a cent in student loans but at least I'll feel like ai earned it.

Connemara's post RE: not having time to work in college bc hes "focusing" on school is hilarious. If I can hold a 4.0 Average in a well-known university doctoral program, little panzy's like him can flip burgers for a few hrs a week

MrR

 

[whodini]

Had a few work-study jobs around my school's various campuses for two years before I found an advertising firm that paid better and was more interesting, tended bar around K-town and for parties, played in bands, volunteered 12 hrs/week at a children's free clinic, and finally became a consultant for a electrical contractor that dealt strictly with court cases which paid so ridiculously well I wish I never had to leave it.

But now with med school it's hard to find people who want to hire someone with such odd hours for a part-time job when there are a hundred other people willing to work whenever. Tech support and sportsbook jobs are big here and readily hire but with the amount of time required for my classes and training, a part-time job is low on my priority list.

 

[DeSica]

Originally Posted by Mr. Checks

What's your view on the delegation doctrine?

I have difficulty turning my computer on in the morning.
I have no idea what "PDF" is but I know it has some impact on whether I can open an email from my brother. I think.
I learned on Tuesday that I have something called "Groupwise" on my computer.
If I press the thingy I normally press and something different pops up, I have to call people like you.

But every day I wrestle with the great questions of our time - free speech, federalism, the separation of powers - and the minor related questions. There are no answers that I can get from some formula. I retain 7 removes from the main premise in my head while my opponent does the same, jockeying for the weaknesses in his argument as he picks at mine. The stakes are usually minor, like maybe $1 Billion or someone's liberty or the very structure of our society. Want to feel your asshole pucker? Have your opponent ask the jury for $186 million, and you knows it's a legitimate figure.

So, yeah, this law stuff is really easy.


Easy there, Clarence Darrow, the kid didn't mean any harm...you have your take on matters, and he has his.

Meanwhile, take some solace in the fact many people have been in far more serious situations with far more at stake, and that for every guy like you, there are a dozens of schlubs with law degrees out there messing up some divorce or dropping the ball on some two bit insurance settlement.

As I understand it, we don't get to nail ourselves to crosses...somebody has to do it for us.